British Telecom Operator Three's Research on Parents' Hopes for Kids' Digital Skills

TapTechNews June 3rd, a research report targeting local parents was released today by the British telecom operator Three. The data shows that parents hope their children can acquire more digital skills at school.

A total of 2,000 parents participated in this survey, with their children aged between 6 and 18. Among them, 44% of parents worry that their children will not be able to accomplish other things with the power of technology except for browsing social media, which may pose an obstacle for them to enter society and get into the workplace in the future.

TapTechNews summarized some key points of this research as follows:

85% of parents believe that digital skills teaching should be as important as reading and writing. Over the years, the school system in the UK has done a lot of work in the digital skills area, such as introducing programming courses to the classroom. But often the fact is that digital skills is not regarded as a core curriculum like English, mathematics and science.

75% of parents think that learning digital skills is more practical than learning history and other disciplines - although understanding history is very important for many jobs and character building, many jobs really require digital skills rather than profound historical knowledge.

76% of parents believe that the school should allocate a fixed budget to ensure that children can access the latest digital technologies.

Parents generally worry that although children can operate platforms such as TikTok skillfully, they may not know how to use Excel, image processing software, and programming platforms.

The skills that parents most hope their children can learn at school are as follows:

Basic computer skills (62%)

Social media security (54%)

Cyber security awareness (53%)

Typing skills (52%)

Programming (45%)

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